Adding additional websites using addon domains

This article will mainly apply to shared hosting accounts & adding additional websites/domains to your account by using the “addon domain” feature. This feature allows you to add additional websites onto your web hosting account by creating the necessary DNS records as well as the directory in the home directory to place the files for the website in.

Follow below procedure to create an Addon Domain under your cPanel account.

  1. Log into cPanel on the account to add the domain on.
  2. Click "Domains" under the "Domains" section.
  3. Click the "Create A New Domain" button.
  4. Enter the domain name to add in the "Domain" text box.
  5. Deselect the "Share document root (/home/username/public_html) with “domain.tld”." option.
  6. Enter the directory where you want the files for this domain to exist.
  7. Click the "Submit" button.

 

 

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